skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see why the person who wants a short term rental has any less right than the longer term tenant.

That's because you only look at the individual people, which is precisely my point.

For society at large, for the GDP, short term tourists are not what society / the economy needs (unless your entire society is based on tourism, which is a dangerous path on its own as many countries like Croatia discovered during Covid). Short term tourists contribute barely anything to the economy outside of eating out, museum entrance fees and where the law allows for it dedicated taxes (which many AirBnBs just skip on). In contrast, actual economic activity needs people and these people need long term stays.
> Much better is to put it all into one, ugly file until the kinks are worked out and then organize it later

IMO this defer-until-needed approach depends a bit on having better tooling to use whenever the rework happens. Stuff like languages with statically-checkable types, good "Find Usages" IDEs, tests that exercise the overall architecture, etc.

When you can't count on those things, a constant gradual approach is needed to compensate.
One day you'll understand how valuable it was to have a person with knowledge and their own thoughts.
You mean trillions, not billions
It’s pretty obvious than enlargement went too fast and is an utter failure. It was mostly pushed by the UK which wanted to weaken the union as a political entity as much as possible.

It’s even more true with the euro zone where some members are directly harmed by the high exchange rate.

It would make a lot of sense to go back to a smaller more integrated union with the countries which want it and leave the ones which only want the single market be part of a less integrated union.

Then again, considering Germany and France disagree about pretty much everything at the moment, I doubt it would go very far.
Things like this? https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6505039/bluesky-bans-lunduke...

And this: https://x.com/clownworld_/status/1858194893249917377?s=46

And this: https://x.com/immeme0/status/1872482191869132932?s=46

Etc. They seem REALLY ban-happy over there.
Buggy phone? Unsupported codecs? As far as i can tell (on mobile) the video player is a plain html5 video element, no frills.
Exactly the reason you're wrong about this. If there is an official document saying that the successor to A is B, and 450 million people accept this as an "official document" and a fact, there is not much point in you saying that successor to A is rather C, because you THINK that would make more sense...
interesting why so?

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moving further left from 2016-2020-2024 lost voters.

No, it continued the 30 year trend since Hw Bush. Right to left to right.

It only really hints that people only rile up after the other party leaves office. So I guess "pissed off enough to be mildly annoying but not so pissed off to overcome an incumbent". But yes, the center is riled up, a little. The right moreso. Someone on the fringes is never not going to vote to begin with, so that's a bad way to judge those groups.

>not bernie's group for sure. although he seems more center compared to the "squad". you should thank them for that.

Really depends on your lens. For the EU, US is basically center right even with liberals. So Bernie would be a proper left wing candidate.

But for US, that's about as liberal as we've been for decades. Decades of red scare narrative made many across the board hate the idea of "socialist ideals" like Universal healthcare and publicly owned utilities. It seems that's starting to crack,maybe.
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It's an interesting question to ponder what could have been done had they knew how big a problem it would be. Imagine going back in time, but lacking any technical knowledge to bring. You also can't do 'I am from the future and this is what you must work on'. All with past tech and past political economy.

* I wonder how much investing in solar would have been worth it. The tech was carried over by a huge investment in semiconductors that helped silicone tech on the side. If you go back early you probably end up replicating it and that costs a lot? Or I could be wrong here.

* Wind tech was probably doable. You could have iterated over designs, material science was behind but not that much I think. Nuclear was reasonable too.

* CFLs were developed in the late 70s. One could have done an early version of banning incandescent lighting. Blue LED lightening weren't invented yet and took a breakthrough.

* Probably even more stringent fuel mandates. Electrical vehicles were in the future, you could have brought them forward by a decade or two, but in the 1980s they weren't an alternative, and I don't think in the 90s either?

* Of course, the US could have mandated solar water heaters where the climate allows.

We can imagine an alternate past where green tech was wind + nuclear, and lightening was CFLs.
I mean half the reason the mitigations don't do anything is that nobody actually cares to target OpenBSD
Simple Prompts to Get the System Prompts
Find it curious how people in the US tend to give a questionably huge role of disease to the population loss of the first americans
Thank you for considering it! To make something open source, all you need to do is to choose an open source license. Add it as a file to your project.

Here's a good website to help you choose a license: https://choosealicense.com/
Trick is to just use delivery service like SendGrid or PostMark and as long as your domain isn't brand new and the content doesn't smell phishy, you should have a decent chance. Don't try with a random IP that server vendors give you for $5/mo, which can never look too clean.
US, too, what's the point?
why didn't you close the account instead, after transferring your balance, to send them a stronger message?
I'm sure one of the Big 4 accounting firms and Goldman could step up to help "fix" any problem given their experience with Greece.
Apple of course thinks their internal team of experts is enough to validate this.
why stupid? it uses a Graph in RAG. graphrag. if anything its too generic and multiple people who have the same idea now cannot use the name bc microsoft made the most noise about it.
> The "CDU bureaucracy" ? What is that? The CDU is a political party.

Right, and like most large organisations it has a bureaucracy.

> Generally about the appointment of the commission

Right, note the vague "suggestions from member states". (Also note that the claimed accountability points have never been activated in practice)
Yeah, in the 1990s.
AI Models Are Getting Smarter. New Tests Are Racing to Catch Up
I think the parent comment was a parody of trumpite rhetoric.
There’s a land border between Canada and Greenland on Hans Island
I'm German, please don't try to belittle someone's point just because you believe them to be from someplace, that's not how it works on this forum. Please go read the guidelines linked at the bottom of the page. Specifically, respond to the strongest possible interpretation of what someone says, not the weakest.
In a static population sure. Over decades?
advice to OP - that gif showing how you zoom in and star the repo is a giant turnoff. i closed my tab when i saw that.
Here's an idea for a moat: "You know all the ethically extremely questionable grabbing of personal data and creative work we did to build our LLM? Yeah, that's illegal now. For anyone else to do, that is."
This is it! I didn't realize it was actually a thing you could just install.
Fuck the subsidies. They do more harm than good anyway.
Game of life is no different from other computers in this regard. You can make it have no inputs (just disconnect your mouse/keyboard in the case of your computer), or you can make it have inputs (just have a few GoL cells be controlled externally).
OP here, I almost got a decked out Mac studio before I returned it for a Asus ROG as the native Linux support, upgradability & CUDA support is much more important to me.

Meagre VRAM in these Nvidia consumer GPUs is indeed painful but with increasing performance of smaller LLMs & fine tuned models I don't think 12GB, 14GB, 16GB Nvidia GPUs offering much better performance over a Mac can be easily dismissed.
FYI: "The PDP–11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers originally sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11
Was zombie-Bench just acquired?
Current landing page reads "Welcome Back
More information on how to continue your services will be available tomorrow at 9am EST"

Digging a little deeper shows a banner that says "Exciting news! Bench has been acquired by Employer.com"

Exciting news indeed.

From a comms and customer confidence standpoint, this seems like something you would rather have had happen on Thursday before Bench announced its shutdown to the world, but .

Who is Employer? According to a press release from Nov 22, 2024, "Recruiter Ventures, a leader in talent acquisition and workforce management solutions, today announced its strategic consolidation of its existing portfolio of brands and technologies under the Employer brand."

Will Recruiter Ventures continue to run the existing Bench machine with the existing Bench team? Will they still make a data export available to companies that have been spooked by all of this? We'll have to see.
That make sense. Also the average life expectancy of a population is calculated with smokers in the cohort I guess.
I meant defrauding others who might have used EU funds to pay for your services - that's not defrauding the EU and a different court and agency will handle it.
> The same “trade” carries on in some other European countries to this day, with “new” LSD derivatives cropping up every few months when one is invariably banned.

AFAIU those were all made by Lizard Labs
Sure, but this is a channel that has 12k subs, in 2024. I can't imagine more than a few thousand subs in 2023.

And it's not a music video. 2013 was a big year but also when the algorithms went into overdrive on what you needed to do to drive engagement. The only thing this video didn't do "wrong" was be less than 5 minutes, which IIRC was the mini umum video length of that time to not be punished by the algorithm.
Germany is lobbying all the time for stupid rules to please minority members of their home coalitions (see them trying to torpedo nuclear as a carbon free source on energy in all the European law related to clean energy to appease Die Grünen for exemple) and have realigned themselves strongly with the US since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Since Von Der Leyden appointment, the commission has been favouring them a lot.

The main issue is that the EPP is basically in service of Germany and France lost a lot of influence when most of their deputies joined Renew, a party which is less well integrated in the European Parliament apparatus. That and France failures to even start tackling the structural reforms it needs obviously.
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> quipu did not transmit words, so how do you communicate, for example, rope bridge construction and maintenance information over great distances and time.

Your question has been answered before in this thread. You communicate rope bridge construction and maintenance via apprenticeship. There is a master rope bridge builder who teaches personaly by demonstration and telling an apprentice rope bridge builder, then supervises their work for a bit before the apprentice is declared a master themselves. You do not need written communication for this.

In fact even to this day this is how much of the skills are communicated. I learned lost wax casting from a dude in a workshop who shown me what should be the proper consistency of the malachite-gypsum-water mixture before you slop it on your wax pieces. I didn’t learn it from a book, even though i know how to read and read a lot. Similarly i learned from a master (a different one) during personal supervision on how silver glows when it is just perfect temp to flow into a cast. Also learned from a master how to see that the metal I’m working is becoming brittle from work hardening, and what can I do to avoid or even use that effect to my benefit. None of this is rope bridge building, just illustrations that knowledge, even very important knowledge, is transmitted to this day without writing.

Why is it so hard to imagine that the Incas did the same?
> Selective testing is a key technique necessary for working with any large codebase or monorepo: picking which tests to run to validate a change or pull-request, because running every test every time is costly and slow.

Wait, is it really? Or is it preemptively admitting defeat?
typical software engineers are getting sick of AI, the large majority of software engineers are working in webdev

I think they will start migrating to lower level programming (to escape AI to an extent), and the most enjoyable lower level programming projects are:

- Writing your own language

- Retro game emulators

- Operating Systems

- Graphics programming
Note that these are reports about their fellow chinese state funded students not any students they are with. They are not told to report on regular students, the university, companies or governments.

The students have to report on each other. Effectively spying on each other.

Also note that there are many private universities in China and private research institutions which send a significant number of students where I imagine this requirement doesn't apply.
Running data centers on the grid is the most economical and environmentally friendly option.

In the unhappy case of needing to generate power using fossil fuels, grid scale equipment like combined cycle gas turbines will bury the efficiency and emissions of any typical DC class generation capacity.
Google and Apple already do this to some extent: https://arxiv.org/html/2311.09394v2/#S5
The race to singularity.

Will it bring untold wealth to its masters, or will it slip its leash and seek its own agenda.

Once you have an AI that can actually write code, what will it be able to do with its own source? How much better would open AI be with a super intelligence looking for efficiencies and improvements?

What will the super intelligence (and or its masters) do to build that moat and secure its position?
I wrote out a snarky response based off what I understood and then I did more research and he had a big impact. This is a better article to link to in my opinion though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_engagement_wi...
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Anyone taking bets on how long until the cease and desist from stratasys rolls in?
I said in the other comment, but I think AI/LLM's will drive many devs away from commercial development (web development/frontend) towards backend and lower level languages
> It's not enjoyable.

People wouldn't get addicted if it wasn't enjoyable. People's first experience with smoking cigarettes might not be enjoyable because cigarettes taste, smell, and feel awful, but the nicotine inside them is so incredibly enjoyable that it gets people to ignore the awfulness of everything else.

I've quit now, but I've used nicotine for years. In the first few months it gave me a rush, it made me more alert, energetic, and provided a distinct boost in concentration.

Some (but not all) of those positive effects wore off after a couple of years but I always felt like I was getting something in return. It's been a year since I quit and while withdrawal symptoms (awful, by the way, I definitely don't recommend starting!) have gone away and I don't get any cravings anymore, I still notice a slightly reduced level of functioning in myself. It's slightly harder to get started on things, stay focused, and get them done.

Denying this reality by pretending that nicotine is just universally bad and doesn't provide any form of pleasure is how you get teenagers to ignore everything else you said when they try it and find out that it does all of those things.
If your alternative becomes popular they will sic their lawyers on you.
That's not how informed consent works.
Because the Icelandic krona is basically universally agreed by everyone to be garbage monopoly money that only stays because of the oligarchs that are in power.

Also, yeah, the Danish Krona is pegged to the euro at ~7.45 so there is little incentive to switch over.
A viral TikTok video led to a year-long global shortage of Swedish candy
Maybe that’s the problem. Everyone knows that abstractions are desirable, and encapsulates as much as they can, and ends up with redirection hell without any of the advantages of true abstractions. If people understood what the word actually means, we might not be in this mess.
> reform the FDA to make bringing drugs to market cheaper.

Uh, definitely not. The drug discovery and trial process is every bit as complex and expensive as it is for a reason. If you're serious about lowering the cost of getting compounds through the pipeline the first thing that should go is private equity's growing chokehold on the provider practices that perform clinical studies.
Facebook and TikTok could collapse in under a year, that has happened before. Network effects seems very brittle: AIM or Fotolog doesn't exist, and they were huge. MySpace is a shadow of what it was.

OTOH, WD40 has a technical moat since 1953, without a patent. There are a number of companies who rely on technical moat mixed with excellent technical image: Makita or Milwaukee Tool come to mind. You can have also a company based on technology moat that theoretically shouldn't exist (patents expired, commodity products), but it does (Loctite, 3M).
Agreed. Do you think potential users of your repo don't know how to star it?
And I'M saying YOUR company doesn't care that it doesn't work, because they still have a way to absolve responsibility for it not working: blame the vendor who went out of business.
Yeah except Google is just so often wrong or pushing crappy SEO results that I honestly think it's worthless nowadays.
Thanks. Nice story but I’m not sure to grasp the inner meaning. I’ll try to translate the video you shared.
How Paul Graham Is Wrong (2014)
Relevant clip, Mr. Burns' political ad claiming Blinky the three-eyed fish is, if anything, benefitting from the radiation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFhxFDCNTc
If you want completely separate halves, with the 104/105-key formats the right-hand part would be much larger than the left-hand part, which is inconvenient when you want to move or transport it.

You can achieve the same effect in a more convenient way by buying any of the many keyboards with separate parts for the hands, together with a separate numeric pad, which contains the third part of a classic 104/105-key keyboard.

The only remaining difference from the classic format is that on such keyboards the home-end and PgUp-PgDn key pairs are typically on the same vertical column at the right edge of the keyboard, instead of being side-by-side, but it is easy to become accustomed to this arrangement, which actually makes them easier to reach.
Also I think IDEs for retro consoles will become more prevalent, and there is the added benefit of of multiplayer for free with many emulators offering rollback netcode.
IBAN isn't a payment system either, but I'm talking about the end user experience: insert account number, insert amount, click send. Sometimes you also need the SWIFT code which specifies the receiving bank.
You could have said the same about Netscape in 1997. Noone knew what IE was (and if they did, thought it was inferior) and no one certainly knew what Chrome was (didn't exist). Yet, the browser market eventually didn't matter, got commoditized and what mattered were the applications built on top of it.
no because the light enters the same lens
The notion that Iceland jailed a bunch of bankers and whatnot is just a stupid lie that morons love to regurgitate all over the internet. It's a meme in Iceland at this point how often it gets repeated.
When I close my browser, I get asked “are you sure”, seems crazy not to have that protection with brexit once the details had been worked out.

In the end we had an opportunity to reverse it, in 2017 and 2019, but said “no”
It's not that retro. In some places in the world it's still very common, and heat pumps very uncommon. It's a response that makes sense in the right climate (and I should note Carter did create a tax credit program for it, though it never got popular in the US).
> Iceland wouldn’t join the euro with inflation like that

Nobody cares about inflation. They just need the right "democratic leaders". See Georgia. /s
No, your abstractions are there to make your requirements easy to express in code. It’s where businesses language and technical implementations meet.
> Commissioners are proposed by their country

Well, no, they're proposed by the government of their country. Which generally means they're selected by the ruling party in that country.

> I understand that you have had issue in the past with the UK pick as commissioner. Sadly the UK uses first past the post election and has a party-chosen prime minister. I would thank you for not projecting the results of the poor democratic system used by your country on the Union in the future.

Huh? Party list systems (which is what alternatives to FPTP tend to boil down to) redouble the problem - you lose democratic accountability even at that lower level.
Is there a viable way for me to make every site load like this (iOS)? And optimally toggle back to the “full site” if I want to.
The point of eBPF is that eBPF receives and processes data _before_ the kernel does.
what if you ran tests based on the paths touched by the branch, instead of the single commit?
You see it as a problem, i see it as a benefit,
Main reason i dislike twitter/X is the amount of pointless grift that goes around, some for monetary reasons,
Either behave like a human or leave,
"I posted some dog whistle and got banned for it" is actually a great ad for Bluesky.
Redcache-AI: A memory framework for Large Language Models and Agents
> You are on a soapbox challenging the status quo of every country on earth and I’m not, so you automatically have the higher burden of argument.

This is also what was told to people who said that slavery was wrong, and I am not comparing borders to slavery.
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Air cab manufacturer Volocopter has filed for insolvency
> Tobacco is quite interesting. It's not enjoyable.

I remember the first time and it was enjoyable, a very pleasant feeling. I didn't need to try to like it. I was never addicted either, I just liked it when I was out once a week. Then I didn't smoke any for months due to being busy with other life stuff and the next time I tried it made me vomit and that was that.
VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data
Sue them for environmental damage via their energy contracts and request this information under the Aarhus Convention, which your country is a signatory to.

In case your electricity is run by the government you might also have Freedom of Information laws like Austria, Slovenia or Sweden that would grant you access to such public-sector contracts, if requested.
The state has a responsibility to keep people happy. If states keep people sad, we should abolish them because they have no good purpose. Borders don't keep people happy.
Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction
Today's find: You can get a floating-point approximation of 1/x that's accurate to 3 bits with a single integer subtraction instruction.

float fast_reciprocal(float x)
{
unsigned i = *(unsigned *) &x;
i = 0x7effffffU - i;
return *(float *) &i;
}

The magic number 0x7effffff accomplishes two things:

1) The exponent is calculated as 253-e, which effectively negates the exponent and subtracts 1.

2) The mantissa is approximated as a 1st order polynomial in the interval [1, 2).

Interesting, but perhaps not very useful (as most CPU:s have more accurate reciprocal approximations these days).